The New Bay Bridge

Took advantage of a fairly nice and calm (but hazy) late winter day and launched the waverunners on the Wolf River for a short ride. It was my first time to see the newly finished Bay St. Louis Bridge from below. Just this week, the company building it announced that the project was 100 percent complete. For comparison, at the end i've added an aerial shot of what the old bridge looked like a few days after Hurricane Katrina dismantled it over two and a half years ago.




Jessica heading downriver.



The view from my cockpit.



The bridge, looking south.



Above the channel, where the draw used to be.



Take another picture of me, pleaseeeeeee!!!!!!!















Idling back to the Delisle launch.....or as I like to call it, Gnat Hell.



And finally, the "before" shot (taken by NOAA).



Jason
2/24/08

Settings.......

......or the "where" of most of our little adventures. None of these images taken by me unfortunately.



Satellite image(post-Katrina) of the MS Sound, barrier islands, and surrounding waters of LA, AL and the Gulf.



A few really nice aerial shots (post-Katrina) taken by Steve Martin (http://www.pbase.com/smms/profile). Ship Island (above), looking east.......



......and Cat Island (above), looking northeast. Note the erosion on the south tip.



A good aerial that I found on the web of West Ship Island(near) and East Ship Island(in the distance). This one is pre-Katrina. Now, East Ship Island consists only of the dark, tree-covered area in the center. Most of the sand on either end has been eroded away. You can see this in the above satellite image. Looking at the barrier islands, East Ship Island is the third island from the left (appears as just a white dot). Unbelievable.



Jason
1/6/08